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Mind if I call you Bob?
Sat 17 Jan 2009, 04:58 PM
Tweetby Ben Langhinrichs
Dear Lotusphereans,
It is probably just me, but here I am at Lotusphere once more, and in the first hour or two, I have seen about a thousand people I know, or who know me, or whom I might know, or might have seen one of my sessions five years ago, or who read my blog regularly, or ...
I am thinking seriously about just calling everybody "Bob" and letting them sort it out. After all, they already know their names, and I probably do too when not faced with a thousand people at once, but my brain sizzles and sputters at the sight, and even people I've known for years become, simply, "Bob". So, if I walk up to you and call you "Bob", please don't take offence, even if your name is Yancy or Nancy or Tomahawk, and even if I have known you for fifteen years. Consider it my little disability.
(Note: I considered "Bruce" briefly, but there don't really seem to be that many philosphers here, and it's been done)
Your friend, Bob
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What has been said:
767.1. Bob Brodsky (01/19/2009 12:13 PM)
Ben,
You can't go wrong with an engineer named Bob!
LOL,
Bob